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The Comic Book Thread
burningdoom:
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--- Quote from: turf on July 28, 2020, 05:50:41 pm ---What app do y’all use to keep up with your collection?
I tried Comic Geeks, but it didn’t have everything.
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www.stashmycomics.com
A website used to catalog your collection. All you need is an email to sign-up, doesn't cost a penny. You can keep multiple lists and wishlists. And you can export those lists. Includes details like issue numbers, release dates, writers and artists, cover images, etc. And it even includes a rough estimate for each issue and your whole collection.
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Ive got all 32 books listed on StashmyComics.com. I wish it was just a little more mobile friendly.
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An app would be nice, but the website seems to work fine for me. Using Google Chrome on an Android.
These forums on my phone are not. Itty bitty.
Flashback2012:
Went a little crazy between doing online orders through Half Price Books and visiting a copycat competitor we have called 2nd & Charles. The focus has been trade compilations of inter-company crossovers and between the two I picked up/ordered quite a few.
On Order:
Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes
Tarzan/Carson of Venus (technically not inter-company as they're both Burroughs properties but two different pulp universes)
Super Secret Crisis War! 1&2 (Johnny Bravo, PPuff Girls, Ben10, Dexter's Lab, Foster's Home, Billy&Mandy, KND, and others)
Ghost/Batgirl (have in single issues, wanted it one volume)
Legenderry Green Hornet (part of the larger Legenderry crossover that also has Vampirella and Red Sonja)
Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica
Transformers/GI Joe: First Strike Champions (collects the one shots tied to the First Strike series)
Picked Up/Arrived:
Joker/The Mask
Swords of Sorrow (All-Female crossover with Red Sonja, Vampirella, Jungle Girl, Dejah Thoris and others)
Transformers/GI Joe: First Strike (main series feat. the TF, GI Joe, MASK, ROM and other Hasbro properties)
GI Joe vs. Transformers III: The Art of War (have in single issues, wanted in one volume)
Mindbender: Witchblade/The Darkness/Aliens/Predator (have in single issues, wanted in one volume)
Witchblade/Tomb Raider (One-Shot, non-trade)
burningdoom:
Many comic fans love the story, the artwork, the characters, the continuity, etc. and are readers through and through. Other comic fans just collect for cover art.
But in the last few years I've noticed that the comic market seems to be driven mostly by flippers. Those that speculate on key issues in the hopes that they will go up in value so they can sell those issues later for value.
It seems like ANYTHING that might have any bearing on future stories spikes immediately. And as soon as T.V. or movie news leaks, anything related skyrockets. It's really frustrating as a real comic fan that just wants to read the stuff. But at the same time, I've sold a few issues in my collection that happen to go up to fund other stuff, so I'm not totally against it. It just feels like it's a lot. It feels like it's getting worse than it was in the 90s. At least in the 90s when a book was hot, it got hot to begin with because it was something comic fans wanted to read.
Flashback2012:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 03, 2020, 04:09:48 pm ---Many comic fans love the story, the artwork, the characters, the continuity, etc. and are readers through and through. Other comic fans just collect for cover art.
But in the last few years I've noticed that the comic market seems to be driven mostly by flippers. Those that speculate on key issues in the hopes that they will go up in value so they can sell those issues later for value.
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The specullectors/flippers have been around in comics for a good 30 years now. The market was rife with these morons in the early to mid 90's when Image comics was the hot new publisher. The bottom fell out and they retreated back to the sports card market they unceremoniously ruined, then started making their way back in in the 2000's when the dust had settled. It's the same jackasses who are ruining the video game market as they have more money than sense and only see things as investments.
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 03, 2020, 04:09:48 pm ---It seems like ANYTHING that might have any bearing on future stories spikes immediately. And as soon as T.V. or movie news leaks, anything related skyrockets. It's really frustrating as a real comic fan that just wants to read the stuff. But at the same time, I've sold a few issues in my collection that happen to go up to fund other stuff, so I'm not totally against it.
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I literally just had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago. The latest issue of Catwoman supposedly has a first appearance of a new character and all of the flippers have snatched up every copy they can and dumped them on eBay. It doesn't help that DC switched away from Diamond to a new distributor and I have a semi-inept shopkeep at my LCS. Long story short, I didn't get that issue when I should have because of an ordering snafu and now I'm stuck either having a hole in my run or paying some asshat an inflated value. >:(
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 03, 2020, 04:09:48 pm ---It just feels like it's a lot. It feels like it's getting worse than it was in the 90s. At least in the 90s when a book was hot, it got hot to begin with because it was something comic fans wanted to read.
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You and I remember the 90's somewhat differently it seems. One of the things that wore me out to comics and caused me to take a decent sabbatical from them was the never-ending hype Hype HYPE for everything. It wasn't just DC and Marvel, it was Image and damn near everyone else. If they weren't trying to build the next universe, they were looking for ways to outdo themselves with the next bigger and badder thing. Superman "died" and Batman was "broken but let's make Green Lantern go crazy and make Aquaman angsty with a hook hand! X-Men are HUGE so let's give them 4 regular books + one-shots AND minis to boot. Spider-Man comes out almost weekly and since Venom is too popular let's make a truly evil symbiote with Carnage but let's not stop there and make copycats of our own characters! Dark Horse, Malibu, and Valiant all want to build universes. Image was...well it was a mess...
Besides the inter-company crossovers (of which there were plenty in the 90's), I had to pretty much go cold turkey on collecting regular series till the early to mid 2000's. :P
Cartagia:
--- Quote from: Flashback2012 on August 04, 2020, 08:11:34 am ---
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 03, 2020, 04:09:48 pm ---Many comic fans love the story, the artwork, the characters, the continuity, etc. and are readers through and through. Other comic fans just collect for cover art.
But in the last few years I've noticed that the comic market seems to be driven mostly by flippers. Those that speculate on key issues in the hopes that they will go up in value so they can sell those issues later for value.
--- End quote ---
The specullectors/flippers have been around in comics for a good 30 years now. The market was rife with these morons in the early to mid 90's when Image comics was the hot new publisher. The bottom fell out and they retreated back to the sports card market they unceremoniously ruined, then started making their way back in in the 2000's when the dust had settled. It's the same jackasses who are ruining the video game market as they have more money than sense and only see things as investments.
--- Quote from: burningdoom on August 03, 2020, 04:09:48 pm ---It seems like ANYTHING that might have any bearing on future stories spikes immediately. And as soon as T.V. or movie news leaks, anything related skyrockets. It's really frustrating as a real comic fan that just wants to read the stuff. But at the same time, I've sold a few issues in my collection that happen to go up to fund other stuff, so I'm not totally against it.
--- End quote ---
I literally just had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago. The latest issue of Catwoman supposedly has a first appearance of a new character and all of the flippers have snatched up every copy they can and dumped them on eBay. It doesn't help that DC switched away from Diamond to a new distributor and I have a semi-inept shopkeep at my LCS. Long story short, I didn't get that issue when I should have because of an ordering snafu and now I'm stuck either having a hole in my run or paying some asshat an inflated value. >:(
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I've been seeing a lot of it in Magic the Gathering and action figures lately - we discussed the NECA TMNT figures over in the toys thread. NECA has really boned the distribution on those.
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--- Quote ---It just feels like it's a lot. It feels like it's getting worse than it was in the 90s. At least in the 90s when a book was hot, it got hot to begin with because it was something comic fans wanted to read.
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You and I remember the 90's somewhat differently it seems. One of the things that wore me out to comics and caused me to take a decent sabbatical from them was the never-ending hype Hype HYPE for everything. It wasn't just DC and Marvel, it was Image and damn near everyone else. If they weren't trying to build the next universe, they were looking for ways to outdo themselves with the next bigger and badder thing. Superman "died" and Batman was "broken but let's make Green Lantern go crazy and make Aquaman angsty with a hook hand! X-Men are HUGE so let's give them 4 regular books + one-shots AND minis to boot. Spider-Man comes out almost weekly and since Venom is too popular let's make a truly evil symbiote with Carnage but let's not stop there and make copycats of our own characters! Dark Horse, Malibu, and Valiant all want to build universes. Image was...well it was a mess...
Besides the inter-company crossovers (of which there were plenty in the 90's), I had to pretty much go cold turkey on collecting regular series till the early to mid 2000's. :P
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I agree. Until we start seeing 5 variant covers, one with special hologram technology I don't think it will be quite like the 90s.
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